(ca. 1045?-before 1109). Manegold of Lautenbach enjoyed a long and varied career that earned him a reputation both as a “master of the modern masters” and as a firm defender of the reforming policies of Pope Gregory VII. Originally from Bavaria and known as the Teutonicorum doctor, Manegold seems to have established himself, ca. 1060, as a master in Paris, where one of his disciples was William of Champeaux. Like his contemporary Lanfranc, Manegold traveled from place to place earning his livelihood as a teacher; but unlike his contemporaries, he enlisted the talents of his daughters as instructors. From this early period of his career, Manegold produced commentaries on the Psalms and Matthew.
By ca. 1082, he had entered the convent at Lautenbach in the Haut-Rhin (near Guebwiller), where he published ca. 1085 two substantial pamphlets. The Liber contra Wolfelmum is a tract on the proper Christian approach to pagan learning and a critique of the support of the emperor Henry IV given by Wolfelm, bishop of Cologne; the Liber ad Gebehardum vigorously supports the papal cause in the controversy between emperor and pope. As this region was a stronghold of the emperor, Manegold seems to have found it expedient to absent himself from Alsace for a few years, and we find him at this time in the small Bavarian town of Raitenbuch.
By 1094, Manegold had returned to Alsace, where he established, with the patronage of Buchard de Geberschwihr, a house of regular canons in Marbach, south of Colmar. The special privileges accorded Manegold by Pope Urban II did not endear him to the emperor, and in 1098 Henry IV imprisoned him for a time; but within a few years (ca. 1103) Manegold had once again assumed his post as provost of Marbach, where he seems to have remained until his death.
Manegold of Lautenbach. Liber ad Geberhardum, ed. K.Francke. MGH, Libelli de lite I (1891), pp. 308–40.
——. Liber contra Wulfelmum, ed. W.Hartmann. MGH, Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters VIII (1972).
Lottin, Odon. “Manegold de Lautenbach, source d’Anselme de Laon.” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 14 (1947):218–23.
Robinson, I.S. “The Bible in the Investiture Contest: The South German Gregorian Circle.” In The Bible in the Medieval World, ed. Katherine Walsh and Diana Wood. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.
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